Re: ICU integration

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> In initdb, I initialize the default collation set as before from the
> `locale -a` output, but also add all available ICU locales with a "%icu"
> appended (so "fr_FR%icu"). I suppose one could create a configuration
> option perhaps in initdb to change the default so that, say, "fr_FR"
> uses ICU and "fr_FR%posix" uses the old stuff.

I suspect that we'd be better off adding a mechanism for adding a new
collation after initdb runs, on a live production instance. Maybe that
part can come later.

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Peter Geoghegan